At the start of act II Orgon finds his daughter and they discuss how loyal she is to her father‚ after the discussion Orgon then proceeds to tell his daughter that she needs to say how she finds Tartuffe to be a very worthy man and that she would love to be his wife. As the reader I find this to be very problematic because we already know how deceitful Tartuffe is. Dorine the comical maid points out to Orgon that Tartuffe has no property and no social alliances‚ and that if his daughter is to marry
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he to Hecuba‚/ That he should weep for her? what would he do‚/ Had he the motive and the cue for passion/ That I have? He would drown in the stage with tears/ And cleave the general war with horrid speech" (II.ii.554-561). •He decides that adding scenes that depict his fathers death will make Claudius outwardly guilty looking instead of just acting on it and killing Claudius‚ which if Hamlet wasn’t mad‚ would be able to do. "With most miraculous organ‚ I’ll have these players/ Play something like
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Act 1 This is a tale about a beautiful young Arabic peasant girl by the name of Aaliyah and her complicated journey to marry her one true love. Aaliyah is in love with the handsome prince‚ who is unfortunately unaware of her existence. The first act opens up with Aaliyah alone working after hours in the antique shop located in the heart of the village’s main marketplace. She discovers a small gold lamp‚ which someone had abandoned and brought in to be re-sold. She was automatically fascinated by
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means by which he has obtained them. In this scene‚ however‚ we see a fatal collapse of his powers. In the banquet scene‚ after one feeble effort to play his part‚ he loses consciousness of the witnesses and speaks to the ghost as if they were alone together. Confronted by the spectre of his murdered victim he loses all self-control‚ and before the assembled nobility breaks out into speeches which must inevitably betray his guilt. This very important scene‚ filled with flashback‚ symbolism‚ imagery
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Macbeth ‘Macbeth’ is a well known Shakespeare play of a man who kills his way to win the throne. A key scene within this play that demonstrates Macbeth’s moral degradation is the banquet scene where he hallucinates the ghost of Banquo‚ the man he ordered to be murdered. The plot is about a man who believes witches prophecies that he will become king. He then kills his way to the throne after being convinced by his wife Lady Macbeth. In the key scene‚ Shakespeare uses the hallucination of the ghost
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This busy scene begins with a moment of light comedy‚ which serves to heighten the suspense. The porter of Macbeth’s castle‚ drunk from the previous night’s revels‚ complains that his job is worse than that of the porter of hell. In a private game with the audience‚ he engages in a piece of stand-up comedy in which he imagines himself as that beleaguered servant‚ opening and closing the gate on the demand. The first two examples he uses (that of a farmer and an equivocator) have specific religious
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It takes a lot to murder someone. It takes a lot of courage and nerve‚ and you can’t back down at the last moment or chicken out. However‚ it can also take some persuasion. These are wise words that Lady Macbeth not-so-kindly tells Macbeth. At the beginning of Act 1. Scene 7‚ Macbeth is contemplating whether murdering King Duncan is such a grand idea after all. “I dare do all that may become a man. Who dares do more is none” (47). He is extremely hesitant- he wants to become king but he is unsure
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Macbeth: Banquet Scene The Banquet scene in "Macbeth" is one of the most moving scenes and so far as the tragedy of Macbeth’ is concerned‚ it is tremendous in impact and intensity‚ dramatic in impact. The scene shows a perceptible degeneration of Macbeth’s mental powers which is the inevitable consequence of his murderous deeds. It is the crisis of the play where from the reversal of Macbeth’s fortune begins. The scene records Macbeth’s guilty conscience taking the most horrible form in the shape
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In Act 1‚ Scene 5‚ Lady Macbeth receives a letter from Macbeth‚ telling her of the witches’ prediction that he will be king. Lady Macbeth’s first reaction is to say "shalt be what thou art promis’d". She then says "yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o’ the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way". By this she means that she fears that he is too kind to do what he needs to do to become king‚ by killing Duncan. Her use of the word milk is interesting as it is a very feminine word‚
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1. Explain the references to suicide in ACT 3 scenes 2 and 3. The references to suicide in ACT 3 scenes 2 and 3 were; to me‚ when the nurse came in ACT 3 scene 2 and said the it was a piteous corpse‚ a bloody piteous corpse‚ pale‚ pales as ashes…all in gore-blood. And also another reference was when Juliet was talking about the devil tormenting her in some way because it was her cousin who died and her lover who killed him. Plus in ACT 3 scene 3 Romeo talks about more about his doom with the Prince
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